SPECIALS

GIVE THE "GIFT" OF GARBAGE! Download coupons here.

April - June BCS will pay 1¢ per pound for plastic delivered to our office.

April - June BCS will pay 1¢ per pound for shredded paper delivered to our office.

Get an additional 10¢ per pound for your aluminum cans when you bring in a non-perishable food shelf item through May 30, 2008!

May 7 - June 30, we will be accepting agricultural plastics for recycling! Drop off your ag bags, sileage bags, plastic film/shrink wrap, plastic containers and plastic twine/netting for FREE!

Bring in your dead batteries for FREE at any time!

City Wide Clean Ups

Your town not listed? Contact your city council and ask for a city-wide clean up program!

Boy Scout Events
Sauk Centre Troop #25 will be collecting electronics for recycling at the Stearns County Fairgrounds on the 1st Saturday of each even month where you will be able to dispose of your household electronics for $10 per item.

Melrose Scout Troop #68 is holding a paper drive at Ernie's in Melrose. Support the scouts and bring in your paper!

COUNTY FAIR SCHEDULE
Look for the Bueckers City Sanitation booth at the Stearns County Fair, running July 30 through August 3, 2008

NEW RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER INFORMATION

For your convenience, we pick up your garbage and recycling on the same day. Please make sure you have your containers out by no later than 7 a.m. on your pick up day.

Put your cart on one side of your driveway and your recycling bin on the other, as illustrated below.

Grass and leaf pick up service in Albany, Avon and Melrose begins in April and runs weekly through November (weather permitting). Yard clippings should be bagged or boxed, weigh less than 75 pounds; branches should be bundled, less than 3 inches in diameter and no more than 3 feet long.

Not sure how to properly sort your recycling? Lost your pick up calendar? Download to view or print any of these flyers! You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (a free download).

How to Sort Your Recycling
Programa de Reciclaje Infomaccion
2008 A-Week/B week pick up calendar

Holiday Schedule
Our trucks follow their regular routes on all State and Federal holidays with the sole exception of Christmas Day. Should your normal pick up date fall on Christmas, your garbage and recycling will be picked up the day before or the day after. Details will be posted here!

Shortly after New Year's, BCS will have a "Christmas Tree Pick Up" day. Details will be posted here in December.

HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE
Did you know that your old paint cans, fluorescent light bulbs and oil filters cannot go into the regular garbage? These items, and many more common household items, are considered hazardous wastes and must be disposed of properly.

Stearns County Environmental Services, Tri-County Hazardous Waste and Bueckers City Sanitation will be holding an event to collect your HHW! Pick Up Schedule for times, dates and locations for this year's household hazardous waste pick ups.

School Events
Holy Family & Sauk Centre Elementary School have an aluminum can collection bin located at the Sinclair Lewis Park (boat landing).

Seven Dolors Church/School is holding a paper drive to raise money for the school. There will be a container at the school from May 28 - June 12, 2008. Please bring your paper to the school office and let's get that container filled!

Acceptable Types of Paper Include: newspaper, glossy mail inserts, index cards, greeting cards, copy paper, magazines, flyers, calendars, post-it notes, gray egg cartons, phone books, file folders, brochures, newsletters, construction paper, junk mail, non-foil gift wrap

HOLIDAY PARADE SCHEDULE
Bueckers City Sanitation will be participating in the following parades. We hope to see you there!